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consonant shift
noun
Linguistics
.
a
set
of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a
language
.
Compare
first consonant shift
,
second consonant shift
.
Origin:
1885–90
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the thing or concept denoted by a sign
a star (*) used to mark utterance that would be considered ungrammatical or otherwise unacceptable by native speakers of a language
an expression exhibiting constructional homonymity or having two or more structural descriptions
a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In 'The man who called is waiting,' 'The man is waiting' is a matrix sentence
the thing or concept denoted by a sign
a unit within a language, such as a word or base; vocabulary item
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